MARIO SIRONI (Tempio Pausania, Sassari, 1885 - Milan 1961) A POLITICAL CARICATURE (1924)
Black ink and watercolour; 175 x 251 mm. Signed 'SIRONI'. Inscribed in pen on a label pasted on the back of the mount 'opera che è servita / per la copertina / del "Popolo d'Italia" / per una edizione del 1923 / in occasione delle elezioni / politiche'. This caricature is, in fact, an earlier version for the one published on the journal 'Il Popolo d'Italia' on the 11th of April, 1924 (not 1923), a few days after the political elections of the 6th of April. See Fabio Benzi and Andrea Sironi, 'Sironi Illustratore, catalogo ragionato', Milan 1988; no. 634. The caricature mocks the political preferences of the newspapers 'Il Mondo' and 'Il Corriere della Sera'.
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